Data Science Code Bootcamp Metis Expands Classes to Chicago

Aspiring data scientists just got another training option in Chicago. Metis, a New York City-based data science code bootcamp run by Kaplan, announced it is expanding their offerings to Chicago this summer. Starting in July, the code bootcamp will offer a six week part-time course in Machine Learning taught by Jeremy Watt, a Northwestern computer science and electrical engineering PhD holder and author of textbook “Machine Learning Refined.” There will be an “intense focus on implementing popular machine learning algorithms to solve problems” according to a class description. Classes will be held at Dev Bootcamp’s River North location (Metis is affiliated with Dev Bootcamp). The class will run Monday and Wednesday evenings, and cost $2,500. This isn’t the first time Metis has looked to Chicago: local data science consulting company Datascope…